A Locket Song Chapter 6
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 2:04 pm
A Locket Song
By: Rei Tamashii
Disclaimer: Look back to the last four chapters!
**** A/N: Hey, well if you read the notes in the last chapter only one person reviewed and so I'm making this chapter as short as possible! But I'll write this chapter long before this story gets short. ****
A Locket Song Chapter 6
By: Rei Tamashii
Soon more snow drifted down from the gray skies and made the whole world seem pure white. The cold snow lightly layers the cloaks and capes and hoods of the men in Heero's war band. They rode by many villages where farms were dusted with snow and the animals were inside the barns while the people lived in the small houses out of dust brick. Relena could see from the windows that they had slight dirt on their faces and they wore clothing warm yet it looked like rags; they looked cleaner than beggars. Many of them came out and the women, single ones, wanted the men to stay with them and offered them housing and clothing. She saw Duo ride his horse slowly over to the side of Heero and grinned at Relena. Relena was leaning into Heero's chest while he on the other hand was stiff and often times relaxed. It was strange. Heero held her in his arms and held the reins so leaving much of her face hidden from sight by both the hood and Heero's arm.
Duo took a glance at his step brother with humor and a challenge in his eyes, not to mention a twinkle in his violet flicked eyes. "Say, aye brother? May we rest in one of the villages.oh I don't know, Ora?"
Suddenly both sibling's stopped their horses, Heero looked directly ahead while Duo awaited his step brother's answer.
Heero wanted to find out why Ora. It was a village just like any other though much of it was filled of beautiful gardens. What could Duo be planning? He thought.
"Oh come on, the whole band is tired!"
Heero sighed and shook his head signaling his answer, he took only one step until he heard Relena sigh.
Relena might love the wild and to see the stars grimace brightly and clearly in the skies of the forest but she missed entering a comforting a home no matter whom or where it is. She longed to enter a home with people and a small fire in the fireplace. Relena suddenly mentally choked, fire. the thing that brunt her pleasant home in pieces.
"These people are poor, we can survive easier without us bothering them."
Relena looked up, eyes blank of emotions. "That's the most you've ever told me. Neither have you told you who you are besides you name and your position in the King's court, nor have you told me about where we're going! So you're telling me that these villages are poor enough not to invite is in? I already know that!"
Relena's eyes turned into thin slits, "But guess what Heero." Her lips suddenly turned into a soft smile and her eyes softened, "Look at your war band's eyes."
Heero sighed and turned around to see hope and desire in his men's eyes, hoping to enter a house or a large farm. Finally he nodded and just then an old man came by.
***
Relena stared at the old man in sadness, he reminded her of her grandfather. Clamp. Relena suddenly dug her nails into the cloth where her heart was and she bowed her head but something the old man caught her attention.
"Yes! Well we can kill a sheep and feast on it! Besides it is sick anyhow."
Just when Heero was about to protest and tell the elder that he had plenty of food, Relena came and stepped in front of him. Looking at the old man in concern, "If you kill the sheep and we eat it than we'll get sick as well. And you have enough trouble as it is to have food with you as well you'll need as much animals as you have to do the farm work soon. Perhaps I may look at the sheep and heal it?"
The old man looked at her and than he noticed that Heero was behind her blinking rapidly and the elder heard Duo whisper something in his ear.
"Yes, right this way." The old man showed her to the barn and opened the gate. He walked over to a corner with the war band and the girl behind him and opened another gate. There was a heavily wooded fence in a large circle and inside was a sheep. It's eyes wild and it huffed and kicked the fence. The elder with shaking hands opened the gate, "Um..ur.he's a bit wild so I would be careful."
The old man shifted his cane in his other free hand and looked at the girl with honey blonde hair, she smiled at him. She stepped inside and instantly the whole barn was quiet and the men in Heero's war band looked in interest. The sheep kicked again wildly and ran towards her. Relena remained to stand and smile. She drew her hand out and instantly the sheep walked over to her and rubbed his head against her leg. She smiled softly and knelt down patting it's head and wool. "This won't hurt a bit."
She drew out a small knife a slowly cut a small slit in its fur, having a thin stream of blood comes flowing down. "With the blood of the poison like a snake, wash away the pain and all of its dark nectar."
Soon it slowly healed and the wound was gone. The sheep felt calm and slowly laid against the one who saved him and finally got the sleep he had wanted. The elder came up to her, surprised at her magic. He silently helped her up and said nothing but thank her and than move on to Heero.
Relena looked at Heero with interest, he seemed scared of the attention he was getting from the elder and his family including his young daughters which are the same age as he.
When they tried to take her away from Heero's grasp in order to get close to him, Heero would hold on to her tight and instantly they got the point and their eyes darkened as they left.
"Heero?" Relena asked.
He released of her arm and went to sit down in the corner. Relena having no friends at the moment sat down by the fire and looked at the fire as it flickered and blazed around. She didn't want to eat or have anything in her system at the moment for the smell of beer was heavy in the room. The old man's son came in and drank the beer with Heero's men, Duo as well. This included some beer for Heero though he watched as his men talked and hardly drunk.
****
After two hours Relena still sat at the same spot looking at the fire when one of the drunken men came stumbling in with lipstick on his cheeks and he shouted, "Sire! There is a man who wishes to take Relena Peacecraft with him!"
One of the men dropped his cup and beer oozed out, Heero looked at Relena than the man who had came running out with his sword and shouted, "Kill him!"
Relena instantly stood up, "Is he old with a green cape?" She asked the man who came and told her the information, when he nodded Relena's lovely eyes widened and she dashed after the man with the sword. Heero chased after her. Relena saw her dear grandfather, "Relena!" He shouted, his eyes happy to see her. But soon a sword clashed down onto his chest.
"Clamp!"
***
Blood spurted everywhere and the first piece fell down first and than the rest of the body, Relena was looking at her dead grandfather's face as the man trumpled his sword harder and over again and over onto the dead man's body. Very, very, thin tears started to drip down from her blue eyes that had suddenly turned blank.
Heero came and saw the whole thing, he shouted for Duo to take hold of him but his step-brother was drunk as well so he did it himself. He knocked his men down and took only one glance at the dead man and than flashed forward to Relena. The tears had stopped and she didn't cry much but what Heero noticed first of her was that her eyes had changed. They were no longer filled of happiness and innocence and emotions, but blankness.
She took a step towards the bloody ground and looked at Clamp's face before she knelt down and kissed his forehead ignoring the blood spilling onto her dress, "Farewell." Suddenly strong wind surrounded her turning her grandfather to dust with white light beaming, his magic leaving. Relena looked down at her hand and saw a small white ball of light leave her body. Her magic was gone.
As the dust flew away Relena stayed rooted to the dirt. The gust flew towards Heero landing something in his hand. When Heero looked down to see what it was he saw a golden locket. He flipped it to the back with the engraving reading: Relena Peacecraft. He looked at the outside of the locket than at Relena who the blood on her dress left like the dust had. Heero walked over to her and placed a hand on her shoulder. She only blinked and did nothing but slowly stand. She did not look at him or those of the eyes of dizziness and fright of the people. Heero sighed and hooked the locket around her neck before taking her limp cold hand in his and guided her back to the house. Relena walked slowly and limply, feeling as if all of her life was drained out. Everyone whom passed by them looked at her. Heero lead Relena to a corner and sat her down forcing a cup into her hands. Yet in response she only blinked and continuing to stare blankly at the people who sat behind Heero. Heero forced her to lift her hands and take a sip of the water but as she drank it she felt completely dry and her throat was to dry and her face pale. Heero drew her into a comforting hug yet she did not return it or wrap her soft arms around him because her whole body seemed limp, cold, and completely dead.
**** Relena's cloak flapped around her wildly as she and Heero was taking a walk. Heero thought that if they walked further away from the town than maybe she wouldn't think of the death of her grandfather. However they walked in silence before they sat down on the grass and looked up at the stars.
Relena looked down at what she was clutching at, her locket. She turned it over and she saw Relena Peacecraft.
"You weren't lying." She said, her voice sad and lost as if someone else spoke them.
Heero nodded and watched as Relena opened the locket. There a picture of herself with her whole family in a rose garden and Relena heard a song.
"I don't know what words I can say The wind has a way to talk to me Flowers sleep a silent lullaby I pray for reply I'm ready Quiet days calms me Oh serenity Someone Please tell me
O what is it that they say
Maybe I'll know one day"
A few tears escaped, "Clamp." Relena saw the replay of how her grandfather died in her mind and she leaned into Heero's chest never taking her eyes off of her locket as it replayed the song.
Heero soothed her but at that time it wasn't enough. Long after that Relena fell asleep into the warm arms of Heero and he carried her back and laid her in the small bed too close to his own. Heero peeled off the cloak off of her and laid her down and than laid himself on his own bed glancing at Relena before closing his eyes as well.
TBC..
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AN: if you review than I might make the next chapter longer but if you don't it's shorter!
By: Rei Tamashii
Disclaimer: Look back to the last four chapters!
**** A/N: Hey, well if you read the notes in the last chapter only one person reviewed and so I'm making this chapter as short as possible! But I'll write this chapter long before this story gets short. ****
A Locket Song Chapter 6
By: Rei Tamashii
Soon more snow drifted down from the gray skies and made the whole world seem pure white. The cold snow lightly layers the cloaks and capes and hoods of the men in Heero's war band. They rode by many villages where farms were dusted with snow and the animals were inside the barns while the people lived in the small houses out of dust brick. Relena could see from the windows that they had slight dirt on their faces and they wore clothing warm yet it looked like rags; they looked cleaner than beggars. Many of them came out and the women, single ones, wanted the men to stay with them and offered them housing and clothing. She saw Duo ride his horse slowly over to the side of Heero and grinned at Relena. Relena was leaning into Heero's chest while he on the other hand was stiff and often times relaxed. It was strange. Heero held her in his arms and held the reins so leaving much of her face hidden from sight by both the hood and Heero's arm.
Duo took a glance at his step brother with humor and a challenge in his eyes, not to mention a twinkle in his violet flicked eyes. "Say, aye brother? May we rest in one of the villages.oh I don't know, Ora?"
Suddenly both sibling's stopped their horses, Heero looked directly ahead while Duo awaited his step brother's answer.
Heero wanted to find out why Ora. It was a village just like any other though much of it was filled of beautiful gardens. What could Duo be planning? He thought.
"Oh come on, the whole band is tired!"
Heero sighed and shook his head signaling his answer, he took only one step until he heard Relena sigh.
Relena might love the wild and to see the stars grimace brightly and clearly in the skies of the forest but she missed entering a comforting a home no matter whom or where it is. She longed to enter a home with people and a small fire in the fireplace. Relena suddenly mentally choked, fire. the thing that brunt her pleasant home in pieces.
"These people are poor, we can survive easier without us bothering them."
Relena looked up, eyes blank of emotions. "That's the most you've ever told me. Neither have you told you who you are besides you name and your position in the King's court, nor have you told me about where we're going! So you're telling me that these villages are poor enough not to invite is in? I already know that!"
Relena's eyes turned into thin slits, "But guess what Heero." Her lips suddenly turned into a soft smile and her eyes softened, "Look at your war band's eyes."
Heero sighed and turned around to see hope and desire in his men's eyes, hoping to enter a house or a large farm. Finally he nodded and just then an old man came by.
***
Relena stared at the old man in sadness, he reminded her of her grandfather. Clamp. Relena suddenly dug her nails into the cloth where her heart was and she bowed her head but something the old man caught her attention.
"Yes! Well we can kill a sheep and feast on it! Besides it is sick anyhow."
Just when Heero was about to protest and tell the elder that he had plenty of food, Relena came and stepped in front of him. Looking at the old man in concern, "If you kill the sheep and we eat it than we'll get sick as well. And you have enough trouble as it is to have food with you as well you'll need as much animals as you have to do the farm work soon. Perhaps I may look at the sheep and heal it?"
The old man looked at her and than he noticed that Heero was behind her blinking rapidly and the elder heard Duo whisper something in his ear.
"Yes, right this way." The old man showed her to the barn and opened the gate. He walked over to a corner with the war band and the girl behind him and opened another gate. There was a heavily wooded fence in a large circle and inside was a sheep. It's eyes wild and it huffed and kicked the fence. The elder with shaking hands opened the gate, "Um..ur.he's a bit wild so I would be careful."
The old man shifted his cane in his other free hand and looked at the girl with honey blonde hair, she smiled at him. She stepped inside and instantly the whole barn was quiet and the men in Heero's war band looked in interest. The sheep kicked again wildly and ran towards her. Relena remained to stand and smile. She drew her hand out and instantly the sheep walked over to her and rubbed his head against her leg. She smiled softly and knelt down patting it's head and wool. "This won't hurt a bit."
She drew out a small knife a slowly cut a small slit in its fur, having a thin stream of blood comes flowing down. "With the blood of the poison like a snake, wash away the pain and all of its dark nectar."
Soon it slowly healed and the wound was gone. The sheep felt calm and slowly laid against the one who saved him and finally got the sleep he had wanted. The elder came up to her, surprised at her magic. He silently helped her up and said nothing but thank her and than move on to Heero.
Relena looked at Heero with interest, he seemed scared of the attention he was getting from the elder and his family including his young daughters which are the same age as he.
When they tried to take her away from Heero's grasp in order to get close to him, Heero would hold on to her tight and instantly they got the point and their eyes darkened as they left.
"Heero?" Relena asked.
He released of her arm and went to sit down in the corner. Relena having no friends at the moment sat down by the fire and looked at the fire as it flickered and blazed around. She didn't want to eat or have anything in her system at the moment for the smell of beer was heavy in the room. The old man's son came in and drank the beer with Heero's men, Duo as well. This included some beer for Heero though he watched as his men talked and hardly drunk.
****
After two hours Relena still sat at the same spot looking at the fire when one of the drunken men came stumbling in with lipstick on his cheeks and he shouted, "Sire! There is a man who wishes to take Relena Peacecraft with him!"
One of the men dropped his cup and beer oozed out, Heero looked at Relena than the man who had came running out with his sword and shouted, "Kill him!"
Relena instantly stood up, "Is he old with a green cape?" She asked the man who came and told her the information, when he nodded Relena's lovely eyes widened and she dashed after the man with the sword. Heero chased after her. Relena saw her dear grandfather, "Relena!" He shouted, his eyes happy to see her. But soon a sword clashed down onto his chest.
"Clamp!"
***
Blood spurted everywhere and the first piece fell down first and than the rest of the body, Relena was looking at her dead grandfather's face as the man trumpled his sword harder and over again and over onto the dead man's body. Very, very, thin tears started to drip down from her blue eyes that had suddenly turned blank.
Heero came and saw the whole thing, he shouted for Duo to take hold of him but his step-brother was drunk as well so he did it himself. He knocked his men down and took only one glance at the dead man and than flashed forward to Relena. The tears had stopped and she didn't cry much but what Heero noticed first of her was that her eyes had changed. They were no longer filled of happiness and innocence and emotions, but blankness.
She took a step towards the bloody ground and looked at Clamp's face before she knelt down and kissed his forehead ignoring the blood spilling onto her dress, "Farewell." Suddenly strong wind surrounded her turning her grandfather to dust with white light beaming, his magic leaving. Relena looked down at her hand and saw a small white ball of light leave her body. Her magic was gone.
As the dust flew away Relena stayed rooted to the dirt. The gust flew towards Heero landing something in his hand. When Heero looked down to see what it was he saw a golden locket. He flipped it to the back with the engraving reading: Relena Peacecraft. He looked at the outside of the locket than at Relena who the blood on her dress left like the dust had. Heero walked over to her and placed a hand on her shoulder. She only blinked and did nothing but slowly stand. She did not look at him or those of the eyes of dizziness and fright of the people. Heero sighed and hooked the locket around her neck before taking her limp cold hand in his and guided her back to the house. Relena walked slowly and limply, feeling as if all of her life was drained out. Everyone whom passed by them looked at her. Heero lead Relena to a corner and sat her down forcing a cup into her hands. Yet in response she only blinked and continuing to stare blankly at the people who sat behind Heero. Heero forced her to lift her hands and take a sip of the water but as she drank it she felt completely dry and her throat was to dry and her face pale. Heero drew her into a comforting hug yet she did not return it or wrap her soft arms around him because her whole body seemed limp, cold, and completely dead.
**** Relena's cloak flapped around her wildly as she and Heero was taking a walk. Heero thought that if they walked further away from the town than maybe she wouldn't think of the death of her grandfather. However they walked in silence before they sat down on the grass and looked up at the stars.
Relena looked down at what she was clutching at, her locket. She turned it over and she saw Relena Peacecraft.
"You weren't lying." She said, her voice sad and lost as if someone else spoke them.
Heero nodded and watched as Relena opened the locket. There a picture of herself with her whole family in a rose garden and Relena heard a song.
"I don't know what words I can say The wind has a way to talk to me Flowers sleep a silent lullaby I pray for reply I'm ready Quiet days calms me Oh serenity Someone Please tell me
O what is it that they say
Maybe I'll know one day"
A few tears escaped, "Clamp." Relena saw the replay of how her grandfather died in her mind and she leaned into Heero's chest never taking her eyes off of her locket as it replayed the song.
Heero soothed her but at that time it wasn't enough. Long after that Relena fell asleep into the warm arms of Heero and he carried her back and laid her in the small bed too close to his own. Heero peeled off the cloak off of her and laid her down and than laid himself on his own bed glancing at Relena before closing his eyes as well.
TBC..
>>>>>>>>
AN: if you review than I might make the next chapter longer but if you don't it's shorter!